MSU's chapter of Greenpeace announced students from across the country and residents from across Michigan will be at the steps of the university's Hannah Administration Building from 11 a.m. to noon, urging the Board of Trustees to reject the "flawed" energy proposal.

"It's past time for MSU to live up to 'Being Spartan Green' by voting no on this incomplete and unambitious plan," Greenpeace MSU representative Jordan Lindsay said in a statement.

"MSU has an opportunity to be true leaders and shift to 100 percent clean energy."

The university's Energy Transition Plan was released in January with the ultimate goal of leading the university to a future powered completely by renewable resources, but has come under criticism for failing to provide a time frame for the shuttering of the campus' coal-fired power plant.

The T.B.
Simon Power Plant is the main source of power for MSU's 5,200-acre campus. Located on the campus' south end, the coal-fired
plant also uses natural gas and biomass.

The power plant is the largest on-campus coal plant in the United States, according to Greenpeace. The campus
organization has long called for the
university to abandon T.B. Simon Power Plant due to its coal-burning
practices.

In October, three MSU Greenpeace members were arrested when
they refused to leave the premises of Simon's university office past
the Hannah Administration Building's 5 p.m. closing time. The students were
there demanding an audience with Simon regarding the on-campus power plant.

Hundreds have called MSU trustees this week, imploring them to vote against the Energy Transition Plan, according to Greenpeace. Dozens of students are expected to sit in on the board's meeting as the rally coincides outdoors.